Box Tool

Reference

The Box tool create rectangular shapes.

Usage

Selecting a Brush and Material

In the Tool Settings select the brush and material to use with the tool.The Box tool uses Draw Brush types.See Common Options for more information.

Common Brush Options

You can configure the brush main settings exposed on the Tool Settings for convenience.For the draw brushes configuration and settings see:Draw Brush.

• Thickness Profile

• Use a curve widget. to define the stroke thicknessfrom the start (left) to end (right) of the stroke.

  • Use Curve
  • When enabled, the stroke use a curve profile to control the thickness along the line.

Creating Boxes

• Click (LMB or the Pen tip) and drag the start point.
• Release on the desired end point.
• After releasing you can move the start and end point by clicking and dragging on the yellow manipulators.
• Then confirm (Return/MMB) or cancel (Esc/RMB).While dragging you can use Shift to make a perfect squareor use Alt to create the box from a center point.

Plus and Minus or using the mouse Wheelwill increase or decrease the amount of points in the final box.

click and dragging the start point.

Moving start and end points with manipulators.

The box after confirming.